"Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world."

-- Ed Koch

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“The best time to make friends is before you need them.”
“Times will change for the better when you change.”
“A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.”

Source : "Chalmers Johnson: 'Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 27, 2007.
“A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It's also an influence in the way you see everything - in the way you feel your life.”
“Rachael Sage is a marvelous young artist- and I am a fan!! 'Haunted by You' has a beauty that shines through her lyrics and melodies-- poignant, tender and tough. These are stories from the heart that will lift you up and carry you to places you had never dreamed.”
“A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.”
“Fighters are afraid of conditioning, they are afraid of getting tired, but I donâ€™t want to have anxiety or be afraid of anything. I can go 100 percent out there and never have to worry about getting tired. Everybody says fighting is 90 percent mental, and itâ€™s true. Knowing you can go 15 minutes or 25 minutes without any problem can help you sustain that mental advantage over your opponent...”
“For me, the massiveness of what I don't know is one way I experience God. It creates in me a feeling of humility and a sense of gratitude.”

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